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Look into flying out of Chicago, even if you need to take a domestic flight from MN to get there, there are much more 1 stop flights to Cebu from Chicago than there would be from MN and should also be cheaper.

Yes if you are vaccinated and boosted unless your transit country requires a pre-departure test you won't need one until or unless they change the rules again. Because they do not want you to submit the information about your travel earlier than that, and preferably within 24-48 hrs especially if you had been required to present the pre-departure negative covid testing.

You were 100% incorrect about being fully vaccinated requiring a quarantine no matter what, a test is not difficult to achieve within the 48 hour time limit for a PCR test prior to travel, especially with many urgent care clinics offering 1-2 hour PCR test results, or less than 24 hours ahead for proctored antigen testing. https://www.philippineairlines.com/en/ph/home/covid-19/arrivingintheph What may be more difficult is to get a return PCR or antigen test within the 24 hour time limit from departure for the USA if they reinstate testing for everyone entering the USA, but getting a test to go to the Philippines is quick and easy. Only if one wished to skip the testing entirely on the way to the Philippines does one need to be both vaccinated and boosted, otherwise a fully vaccinated passenger only requires a test to avoid quarantine. If you are a foreign national who is unvaccinated, partially vaccinated or unverified you won't be allowed into the Philippines, but they haven't changed the definition of fully vaccinated to avoid quarantine, only gave the option to skip testing if having had at least one additional booster on top of your primary series of vaccination.

That is not correct unless things changed in the last two weeks, I was just in the Philippines between July 7th to July 17th, and being fully vaccinated only needed a negative COVID-19 test to avoid quarantine. There was no quarantine requirement for fully vaccinated if tested and released, and the only difference for vaccinated plus boosted involved needing a COVID-19 test or not. Transiting through South Korea on both directions is easy, Korean Air does not require a negative COVID-19 test unless your destination country requires one, so going to the Philippines as a fully vaccinated passenger you will need one, but to come home as long as the USA doesn't reinstitute the testing requirements it wasn't required.